Release Date
March 11, 2005 (LA/NY)
DVD Release Date
July 5, 2005 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
John Boorman
Writer
Ann Peacock
Cast
Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam Ngakane, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane
Studio
Running Time
104 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language, including descriptions of atrocities, and for a scene of violence
What is In My Country about?
Langston Whitfield (Jackson) is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during the Apartheid era are invited to come forward and confront their victims. By telling the unvarnished truth and expressing contrition, they may be granted amnesty. Can the deep wounds of Apartheid be healed through reconciliation? Langston is deeply sceptical.... Full synopsis »
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